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history of Chinese literature

...writing that characterized this group held sway in China well into the 1940s, when it was gradually eclipsed by more didactic, propagandistic literature. Members of the smaller Chuangzao She (“
Creation Society”), on the other hand, were followers of the “Romantic” tradition who eschewed any expressions of social responsibility by writers, referring to their work as...

role of

Guo Moruo

...laid the first cornerstone for the development of new verse in China. In the same year, Guo, together with Cheng Fangwu, Yu Dafu, and Zhang Ziping, gave impetus to the establishment of the
Creation Society, one of the most important literary societies during the May Fourth period in China. Guo’s translation of Goethe’s
Sorrows of Young Werther gained enormous popularity...

Tian Han

...interest in modern drama. Under the influence of the May Fourth Movement, he joined the Society of Chinese Youth in Japan. Upon his return to China in 1922, he and Guo Moruo and others founded the
Creation Society to promote romanticism in creative writing. Tian also founded the South China Society to experiment in and popularize modern vernacular drama, and he initiated the ...